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ABOUT US Our mission statement and objectives: We are not affiliated with any other entity or organization, similarly or otherwise administered, yet we may align our efforts in any of many cooperative vehicles to pursue a common objective. Providing the proper environment for the achievement of the full creative potential of any member of our community is the best use of any created environment. The pursuit of this clear and simple mission is the finest example of human interaction. Why we are here and do what we do...
Providing community-based services and open meeting space for all to gather and gain assistance through the direct service delivery platforms of arts and cultural opportunities, MAD, Inc. is a one-stop situation that covers all the bases necessary to design a self-fulfilling well-managed and powerful manner of living in contemporary urban society. Incorporating the methodology that has been shown to be successful for more than 70 years for many thousands of men and women throughout the world within the framework of 12 Step fellowships and that inherent design for living, MAD, Inc. was established with this broad-based singleness of purpose – to enhance the lives of our participants and thereby the community at large, without pecuniary gain to any member of the MAD, Inc. Board of Directors. Realizing that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is our duty, in return for the lavish life devolved upon us, to help others without discrimination or exclusion who may be placed in our path and who comes through our doorway of opportunities. This is the highest and best use as a human. Jeffrey Wayne Pergament Chairman of the Board of Directors
METROPOLITAN ASSET DEVELOPMENT, Inc. Domain Name Owner: www.Ex-Offenders.org | Company history: With the advent of casino gaming and related small games of chance in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and other "target" municipalities are faced with a double-edged "sword of hope", so to speak. Casino development creates a variety of ancillary impacts - some beneficial and some not so beneficial to the existing population base. Jeffrey Wayne Pergament, Chairman of the Board of MAD, Inc., served as Administrator of Cultural & Heritage Affairs for the County of Atlantic, New Jersey, from 1977 - 1986, in the wake of the approved referendum to allow casino gaming in Atlantic City. Participating in the final permit and review process for the first 12 casino-hotels, Mr. Pergament completed an historic sites survey for the Department of the Interior and served on the President's National Task Force for the Arts and Humanities under President Reagan. Philadelphia and its citizens and visitors face the same challenges without the same geographic limitations as the "city built on sand", and given the established objectives of the legislation, METROPOLITAN ASSET DEVELOPMENT, INC. is an oasis in an ever-changing landscape for human, physical and economic resource development, capital improvement and community growth, re-entry soci-economic assistance and stabilization. | METROPOLITAN ASSET DEVELOPMENT, INC. METROPOLITAN ASSET DEVELOPMENT, INC. was incorporated in November, 2006, and is a registered nonprofit charitable organization in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Recognizing that change is possible within any community if there is a desire for change within the residential, academic and labor populations, changing the world at large begins with individual change. MAD, Inc. was established to meet this objective for positive socio-economic change in the urban core areas of our major cities. Often over-looked by traditional development strategies, these metropolitan segments of our country are left to random develop strategies and "fair market", free enterprise economic actions that tend to exploit the geographic and architectural aspects of these locales. As rents and property values increase, and re-gentrification begins to happen in metropolitan communities, the quality of the existing residential living experiences suffers from neglect and unfairly distributed service provisions. The "hidden" costs of living exceed the prevailing wages and existing opportunites for growth and development. The "human" infrastructure often comes after the revitalization of the physical infrastructure. |
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